NATICK – Town officials are looking at a zoning district that includes land by Rte. 9 and Speen Street as an area to allow medical marijuana dispensaries.

The spring Town Meeting warrant includes an article limiting dispensaries in Natick to the regional center zoning area. That zone, according to a map on the town’s website, covers the Natick Mall and Speen Street area north of Rte. 9 and some properties along Rte 9 west of Speen Street.

The measure is one of three on the Town Meeting warrant dealing with medical marijuana. The other two seek to ban dispensaries from town and extend the town’s temporary moratorium if Town Meeting and the state Attorney General’s office do not approve a zoning bylaw.

Natick currently has a temporary moratorium until June 30 on medical marijuana dispensaries.

Under the proposed bylaw, dispensaries must receive a special permit from the Planning Board.

Dispensaries must be on lots at least 300 feet from town boundaries, residential zoning district boundaries, schools, houses of worship, playgrounds and day care facilities. Dispensaries also cannot be located in a place where the town has issued an alcohol license.

Police Chief James Hicks said he is "satisfied" with the proposal.

He said he remains concerned about security and worries about young people getting ahold of the drug.

Hicks said it makes sense to have the restriction related to the alcohol licenses since it reduces a potential temptation to mix alcohol and drugs.

A second Town Meeting article would extend the moratorium until Dec. 31 or until a local bylaw regulating dispensaries goes into effect, whichever is sooner.